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10-21-2010, 05:25 AM
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This Date in History - October 21st
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* 1096 People's Crusade: The Turkish army annihilates the People's Army of the West.
* 1512 Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg.
* 1520 Ferdinand Magellan discovers a strait now known as Strait of Magellan.
* 1600 Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in the Battle of Sekigahara, which marks the beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate that in effect rules Japan until the mid-nineteenth century.
* 1774 First display of the word "Liberty" on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts in defiance of British rule in Colonial America.
* 1797 In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched.
* 1805 Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar: A British fleet led by Vice Admiral Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain under Admiral Villeneuve. It signals almost the end of French maritime power and leaves Britain's navy unchallenged until the twentieth century.
* 1805 Napoleonic Wars: Austrian General Mack surrenders his army to the Grand Army of Napoleon at the Battle of Ulm. 30,000 prisoners are captured and 10,000 casualties inflicted on the losers.
* 1816 The Penang Free School is founded in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, by the Rev Hutchings. It is the oldest English-language school in Southeast Asia.
* 1824 Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement.
* 1854 Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses are sent to the Crimean War.
* 1861 American Civil War: Battle of Ball's Bluff Union forces under Colonel Edward Baker are defeated by Confederate troops in the second major battle of the war. Baker, a close friend of Abraham Lincoln, is killed in the fighting.
* 1867 Manifest Destiny: Medicine Lodge Treaty Near Medicine Lodge, Kansas a landmark treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate a reservation in western Oklahoma.
* 1879 Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).
* 1892 Opening ceremonies for the World's Columbian Exposition are held in Chicago, though because construction was behind schedule, the exposition did not open until May 1, 1893.
* 1895 The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
* 1902 In the United States, a five month strike by United Mine Workers ends.
* 1912 During the First Balkan War, Kardzhali is liberated by Bulgarian forces
* 1921 President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting President against lynching in the deep south.
* 1921 George Melford's silent film, The Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino, premiers.
* 1933 Adolf Hitler withdraws Nazi Germany from the League of Nations
* 1944 The first kamikaze attack: A Japanese plane carrying a 200 kilograms (440 lb) bomb attacks HMAS Australia off Leyte Island, as the Battle of Leyte Gulf began.
* 1945 Women's suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time.
* 1945 Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perσn marries actress Evita.
* 1959 In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens to the public.
* 1959 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order transferring Wernher von Braun and other German scientists from the United States Army to NASA.
* 1965 Comet Ikeya-Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers from the sun.
* 1966 Aberfan disaster: A slag heap collapses on the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren.
* 1967 Vietnam War: More than 100,000 war protesters gather in Washington, D.C.. A peaceful rally at the Lincoln Memorial is followed by a march to The Pentagon and clashes with soldiers and United States Marshals protecting the facility. Similar demonstrations occurred simultaneously in Japan and Western Europe.
* 1969 A coup d'ιtat in Somalia brings Siad Barre to power.
* 1973 John Paul Getty III's ear is cut off by his kidnappers and sent to a newspaper in Rome; it doesn't arrive until November 8.
* 1973 Fred Dryer of the then Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game.
* 1975 Game 6 of the World Series is played between the Boston Red Sox and Cincinnati Reds. The game would be won on a home run off the left field foul pole at Fenway Park hit by Carlton Fisk in the bottom of the 12th inning, ending perhaps the greatest baseball game played in World Series history.
* 1977 The European Patent Institute is founded.
* 1978 Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes in a Cessna 182 over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft.
* 1979 Moshe Dayan resigns from the Israeli government because of strong disagreements with Prime Minister Menachem Begin over policy towards the Arabs.
* 1983 The metre is defined at the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
* 1986 In Lebanon, pro-Iranian kidnappers claim to have abducted American writer Edward Tracy (he is released in August 1991).
* 1987 Jaffna hospital massacre is carried out by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 70 ethnic Tamil patients, doctors and nurses.
* 1994 North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea and the United States sign an agreement that requires North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program and agree to inspections.
* 1994 In Seoul, 32 people are killed when the Seongsu Bridge collapses.
* 2003 Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz.
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This Date in History - October 21st
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* 1096 People's Crusade: The Turkish army annihilates the People's Army of the West.
* 1512 Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg.
* 1520 Ferdinand Magellan discovers a strait now known as Strait of Magellan.
* 1600 Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in the Battle of Sekigahara, which marks the beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate that in effect rules Japan until the mid-nineteenth century.
* 1774 First display of the word "Liberty" on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts in defiance of British rule in Colonial America.
* 1797 In Boston Harbor, the 44-gun United States Navy frigate USS Constitution is launched.
* 1805 Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar: A British fleet led by Vice Admiral Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain under Admiral Villeneuve. It signals almost the end of French maritime power and leaves Britain's navy unchallenged until the twentieth century.
* 1805 Napoleonic Wars: Austrian General Mack surrenders his army to the Grand Army of Napoleon at the Battle of Ulm. 30,000 prisoners are captured and 10,000 casualties inflicted on the losers.
* 1816 The Penang Free School is founded in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, by the Rev Hutchings. It is the oldest English-language school in Southeast Asia.
* 1824 Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement.
* 1854 Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses are sent to the Crimean War.
* 1861 American Civil War: Battle of Ball's Bluff Union forces under Colonel Edward Baker are defeated by Confederate troops in the second major battle of the war. Baker, a close friend of Abraham Lincoln, is killed in the fighting.
* 1867 Manifest Destiny: Medicine Lodge Treaty Near Medicine Lodge, Kansas a landmark treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate a reservation in western Oklahoma.
* 1879 Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).
* 1892 Opening ceremonies for the World's Columbian Exposition are held in Chicago, though because construction was behind schedule, the exposition did not open until May 1, 1893.
* 1895 The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
* 1902 In the United States, a five month strike by United Mine Workers ends.
* 1912 During the First Balkan War, Kardzhali is liberated by Bulgarian forces
* 1921 President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting President against lynching in the deep south.
* 1921 George Melford's silent film, The Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino, premiers.
* 1933 Adolf Hitler withdraws Nazi Germany from the League of Nations
* 1944 The first kamikaze attack: A Japanese plane carrying a 200 kilograms (440 lb) bomb attacks HMAS Australia off Leyte Island, as the Battle of Leyte Gulf began.
* 1945 Women's suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time.
* 1945 Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perσn marries actress Evita.
* 1959 In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens to the public.
* 1959 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order transferring Wernher von Braun and other German scientists from the United States Army to NASA.
* 1965 Comet Ikeya-Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers from the sun.
* 1966 Aberfan disaster: A slag heap collapses on the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren.
* 1967 Vietnam War: More than 100,000 war protesters gather in Washington, D.C.. A peaceful rally at the Lincoln Memorial is followed by a march to The Pentagon and clashes with soldiers and United States Marshals protecting the facility. Similar demonstrations occurred simultaneously in Japan and Western Europe.
* 1969 A coup d'ιtat in Somalia brings Siad Barre to power.
* 1973 John Paul Getty III's ear is cut off by his kidnappers and sent to a newspaper in Rome; it doesn't arrive until November 8.
* 1973 Fred Dryer of the then Los Angeles Rams becomes the first player in NFL history to score two safeties in the same game.
* 1975 Game 6 of the World Series is played between the Boston Red Sox and Cincinnati Reds. The game would be won on a home run off the left field foul pole at Fenway Park hit by Carlton Fisk in the bottom of the 12th inning, ending perhaps the greatest baseball game played in World Series history.
* 1977 The European Patent Institute is founded.
* 1978 Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes in a Cessna 182 over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft.
* 1979 Moshe Dayan resigns from the Israeli government because of strong disagreements with Prime Minister Menachem Begin over policy towards the Arabs.
* 1983 The metre is defined at the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
* 1986 In Lebanon, pro-Iranian kidnappers claim to have abducted American writer Edward Tracy (he is released in August 1991).
* 1987 Jaffna hospital massacre is carried out by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 70 ethnic Tamil patients, doctors and nurses.
* 1994 North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea and the United States sign an agreement that requires North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program and agree to inspections.
* 1994 In Seoul, 32 people are killed when the Seongsu Bridge collapses.
* 2003 Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in its discovery by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz.
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